WEB 2.0 TOOLS:

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1. www.kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. (Ciamacco)

2. Glogster is a collaborative online learning platform for teachers and students to express their creativity, knowledge, ideas and skills in the classroom. (Ciamacco)


3. Photo Story 3 - a free program that combines pictures and sound. (Carbonara)

4. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. (Ciamacco)

5. Spicynodes Entice visitors to explore and savor the experience of visiting your web site, add visualizations to your blog, create a mindmap or organizational chart, or encourage students to delve deeper. (Ciamacco)

6. Blabbarize-is an image manipulation tool that could be used for group projects (Lawler).

7. http://www.photoshop.com/ web based photoshop (Trapizona)

8. Google Docs -This allows students to work on spreadsheets, word processing, and database sheets through the internet. (Lawler)

9. Storybird -This allows students to storytell by using different graphics that are pre-made. Would be perfect for an English class. (Lawler)

10. skype- improves class participation and collaboration. Free and easy to sign-up. (timko)

11.wikis- universal usage! creates collaboration and a sense of community in the classroom (timko)


12. www.toondoo.com This website allows you to create a comic strip by choosing different layouts, backgrounds, and characters. (Clark)


13. www.calcchat.com This is a great mathematics website. You can choose your textbook and see odd problems worked out properly. (Clark)

14. Prezi a website where one can create and share presentations in a much more interactive manner than Power Point or Google Docs presenter (Studeny)

15. Wallwisher an online bulletin board; could be used to keep track of assignments for your classes (Studeny)

16. Wordpress a blog site, that's not your average blog site (Studeny)

17. Staged is a digital toy for creating animated comics. The user can pick characters and give each character different animations, and the user can also add dialog to create a story. (Kutchko)

18.
Picsviewercan turn any Flickr photos into stimulating presentations. There are 10 slide show templates to choose from to create a photo presentation. (Kutchko)

19. Xtranormal includes sets, actors, and sounds to help instantly create movies. (Kutchko)

20. Edmodo is an educational networking site that allows students to communicate with their teacher and other students about classroom topics and assignments. (Kutchko)

21. Smile Box is a web 2.0 tool that lets a user turn pictures into slideshows, scrapbooks, invitations, and collages. (Kutchko)

22. Audioblogger (www.audioblogger.com) allows you to make audio posts from your phone. (Trapizona)

23. Wikibooks (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page) free, open-content textbooks that you can edit. (Trapizona)

24. APA Citation Maker (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/) (Trapizona)